I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

images precede the real, making and shaping it into what we come to name and know as the real, producing it, fabricating it, into the worlds we come to inhabit.

True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of the city. That's the new politics, maybe.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.

Don't say I gotta do anything in life. There is nothing you gotta do. But I want to.

Group action - yes; group thinking - no